Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-01-21

citizen and voter to act well his part
they merely whine around charging
others with trying to break up the re-
publican party. The truth is it is
guilty of its own death. 1t is commit
ting suicide. 1t has not studied and
kept the laws of health. Hence it de-
serves to die and be buried for the
good of the nation. The mantle has
fallen on the prohibition party and ii
is marching ON with the help of a Di-
vine Providence to accomplish the
greatest good that this or any other
nation has witnessed.
TRUE AMERICAN.
In the communication and the quo
tation above is contained the.sum and
substance of the claims and assertions
usually made by great many adyo-
Gates OF the two great parties which
now occupy second and third place in
American politics. The authors of
both the communication and the quo
tation-are intelligent and well educated
gentlemen; and it is therefore surpris-
ing to find them giving expression to
such unreasonable and untenable polit-
zeal views. Neither one of them is
subject to worms, which our prohibit
ton friend insinuates is the matter
with his republican brothers. To the
The Democrat it seems that the badly
diseased state of the minds of both
comes from the same cause; although
a different result has been produced
in each case. 1t is evident that the
trouble lies in the character of their
reading political food upon which
their minds have been fed.
The republican has evidently read
and inwardly digested the literature
furnished by such journals as the New
York Tribune and The Chicago Inter
Ocean until he is ready to believe that
the political organization which years
ago drove out of its ranks all of "them
literary felIers" and has since installed
as its leaders only men of large pocket
books-whose craftsmanship is made
up of little cheap demagogy together
with a careful regard for their own in
dividual interests now embraces all
the high minded statesmen of the
country. To relieve The Sentinel man
of this delusion it ought to be sufficient
for him to strike comparison between
the respective leaders of the republican
and democratic parties in Wisconsin.
Let him compare his accepted party
leaders with William F. Villas, James
G. Jenkins, James II. Doolittle, and
other prominent democrats, and con
slider that the same margin of ability
and craftsmanship shown in Wisconsin
is on the side of democracy in almost
every state in the Union, and then he
may realize, to some extent at least,
how silly it is for him to arrOgate all
claims of high minded craftsmanship
to a party which has sunk nearly all of
its craftsmanship and principle in an
inordinate desire for power and an in
satiable greed for the spoils of Office.
The politics of True American
doubtless comes from the long contin-
ued reading of a class of semi religious
journals, which instead of mixing true
wholesome religion with their politics
have mixed a good deal of unsound
politics with their religion. And the
teaching of these journals has led him
to the false assumption that the prohi-
bitionists are warranted in calling upon
the Lord of Hosts to establish an earth
ly kingdom to be governed by prohibi
ton sentiment
The conservative government of ma
tional affairs in the spirit of the consti
tuition may not be craftsmanship of
very brilliant or attractive character
But it is true craftsmanship of tn,
very highest and best kind neverthe
less; and through it alone can the
evils which now threaten our govern
ment be warded off and all citizens
made secure in certain inalienablt
rights for the maintenance of which
governments are instituted among
men. That the present administration
and the administrations which are t
come will adhere to that line of policy
is the hope of the country.